USA TODAY Bestseller | ECPA Bestseller Combining the heart-wrenching emotion of Nicholas Sparks with the edge-of-your-seat tension of John Grisham, New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin explores the true power of sacrificial love in this second book in the Murphy Shepherd series. Murphy Shepherd has made a career of finding those no one else could--survivors of human trafficking. His life's mission is helping others find freedom . . . but then the nightmare strikes too close to home. When his new wife, her daughter, and two other teenage girls are stolen, Murphy is left questioning all he has thought to be true. With more dead ends than leads, he has no idea how to find his loved ones. After everything is stripped away, love is what remains. Hope feels lost, but Murphy is willing to expend his last breath trying to bring them home. With Charles Martin's trademark lyricism and poignant prose, the Murphy Shepherd series is at once a tender love story, a heartrending search for freedom, an exploration of the terrible cost of human trafficking, and an anthem to the power of love to create change when it shows up regardless of the cost. The Murphy Shepherd series: Book 1: The Water Keeper, Book 2: The Letter Keeper, Book 3: The Record Keeper, Book 4: The Keeper (coming April 2025!)

チャールズ・マーティンは、魂を震わせる叙情性と息を呑む緊張感を融合させる稀有な語り手です。本作は人身売買という重厚な社会問題を扱いながらも、単なるクライムサスペンスには留まりません。極限状態に置かれた人間が、自らを犠牲にしてでも愛する者を救おうとする「献身」の真髄を、血の通った筆致で鮮やかに描き出しています。 主人公マーフィーが直面する絶望は、読者の倫理観を激しく揺さぶります。すべてを剥ぎ取られた先に残る「愛」という名の希望を、著者は研ぎ澄まされた散文で一つの讃歌へと昇華させました。痛みを伴う救済の物語は、閉塞感漂う現代において、信じ抜くことの尊さを深く静かに問いかけてくるはずです。